Lydia Monks
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Children’s book illustrator and author. What the Ladybird Heard and other Julia Donaldson books. Our new book, The Tooth Fairy and the Crocodile is out in June
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Our new book The Tooth Fairy and the Crocodile is out on 6th June but you can pre-order now!
#JuliaDonaldson
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🌟WIN🌟 a copy of the 10th Anniversary edition of The Rhyming Rabbit by Julia Donaldson.
Like and RT to win.
Ends on Friday 12th Feb. 🐰💕🐏
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Sheffield Council have decided that after listening to residents moaning on and on about saving War Memorial trees, they have listened enough. 41 war memorial trees are going to be cut down just, like the men they represent.
#SaveSheffTrees
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Would anyone like to win a signed copy of What the Ladybird Heard at the Seaside? RT to win. Ends 2.4.21
#JuliaDonaldson
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I don’t understand why no one collects conkers anymore. It seems wrong to just leave them on the ground. I collected some and made an offering. 🍁🍂🌳
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The What the Ladybird Heard post box is on Clarkehouse Road, Sheffield S10, outside King Edward’s School. 👍🏻🐞
#WorldBookDay
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🌟GIVEWAY🌟
Signed What the Ladybird Heard at the Seaside! I’ll choose a winner on Monday. RT to win 🧜🏻♀️🐳🐬🦀
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My daughter said they could smell the smoke in school today and an elderly neighbour was having breathing problems. Makes a mockery of the Clean Air Zone in Sheffield.
This footage includes burning Bamford Moor, owned by the Manners family. Violet Manners wants to get control of
@nationaltrust
. Is this what she wants for NT moorland?
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12 arborists, 16 SIA (Amey hired security), 18 police officers to cut down a tree in Sheffield. They didn’t.
#SaveSheffTrees
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I hope everyone has watched Motherland?! Compulsory viewing. I particularly loved the episode when Julia tries working from home. ♥️♥️♥️
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I thought it might be nice to do a
🌟GIVEAWAY🌟
Win all 4 board book editions of the What the Ladybird Heard series by Julia Donaldson. RT and follow to win. Ends 13/05/22 🐞
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🌳 GIVEAWAY 🌳
With the sad news of the Sycamore Gap in the news, I thought I’d give away a copy of my new book Adoette which features the loss of a favourite tree. RT to win.
Ends 6/11/23
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A Christmas window for the new Hillsborough Bookshop! 🐞🦌🎅
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I was thrilled to meet
@ChrisGPackham
and I forced a copy of Adoette on him as he gets a dedication in the back for all his support during the Sheffield tree protests. As he said during his talk, every tree counts. 💚🌳💚
@otsfestival
@AndersenPress
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🌳GIVEAWAY🌳
I’m going to giveaway a signed copy of Adoette. Follow and RT to win.
Ends 30/09/22
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Ditch the grammar and teach children storytelling instead
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Every day I empty my studio of ladybirds, and every day it fills up again. I should be grateful it’s not gruffalos I suppose! 🐞🐞🐞🐞
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Lovely that Sheffield has been named the UK’s greenest city, but let’s give credit where it’s due. We had a very generous benefactor; business man, councillor and Lord Mayor, John George Graves. He gave Sheffield…
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These are the trees Sheffield Council want to fell with the help of Amey and South Yorks Police. You can see why residents are trying so hard to save them.
#SaveSheffTrees
#PFI
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@educationgovuk
What I hear as a parent of a Yr 11 child when she comes home from school, is sad stores of eating disorders, self harm, anxiety and tragically this week, suicide. The idea that they can carry on as normal after this completely abnormal year is actually a bit cruel.
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🌟WIN🌟 As a treat for going back to school, I’m giving away all 3 Twit Twoo School books. RT to win. Ends 12/03/21 🐭🐸🐰❤️
#BackToSchool
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🥳 GIVEAWAY 🥳
10 years of Sugarlump and the Unicorn by Julia Donaldson. RT to win a copy signed by me! ✍️
Ends 21/04/23. UK only. 🦄💖
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Some other exciting
#WorldBookDay
news! There is a special What the Ladybird Heard postbox in Sheffield!
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Dr Dog explains
#COVID19
. A book for little ones in difficult times. Free download available:
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My house is being overrun by ladybirds. Do you think Axel has the same problem with gruffalos?! 🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞
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Can’t stop thinking about the person hit by our train. It was interesting witnessing passenger’s reactions. Two young men were most annoyed and damning. No empathy at all. I’d guess the person who died was a young man too. There’s something in that I feel. Not good. 😔 RIP
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Nearly 6000 street trees felled in Sheffield as part of a road improvement programme. Not so bothered about air improvement.
#SaveSheffTrees
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Welcoming the coming of light on the Winter Solstice. Rupert (Front and back covers) by Alfred Bestall 1949.
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In better news, I received a letter from Poppy aged 5 who says I’m the best girl in the world! 😁
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Had a lovely day painting on a window in beautiful Bath. Thinking of moving here just for the bookshop!
@mrbsemporium
@bathkidslitfest
@AndersenPress
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I’m in London with my children who don’t want to be seen with me! I have to walk 10 paces behind at all times and I’m not allowed to take any photos of them. 😀
#happyholidays
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Tree Huggers have a bad name in Sheffield. Branded a minority of undemocratic vigilantes who need to get a life. Here’s a quote from one which I liked.
#SaveSheffTrees
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I’ve finished tidying my studio so I now have no excuse to put off doing some work! Maybe I’ll do my accounts?! 😆
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As it's
#SATs
month, I thought I'd repost this brilliant, inspirational letter from the staff to the pupils at Spire Junior School.
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Are there any charities, schools or libraries in Sheffield who would like some books? I have loads and I’d like to give some away to good causes.
@SheffLibraries
@SheffChildrens
?
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Just had to pop out to get some bread and milk. Have come back with 52 ladybird books. 😳
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Got back from holiday to find that it’s Christmas already! ❄️❄️❄️
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To celebrate our city trees, particularly Sheffield’s, I thought I’d give away a copy of Adoette and a couple of drawings I did on stage at Barnes Lit Festival.
Follow & RT to win. I’ll choose a winner on 3/7/23 💚🌳💚
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Hillsborough Bookshop window has been redone. It was difficult to get a good photo in the sunshine. Repainted onto acetate. 4 days work. Might never do another! 😩👍😉
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This is a really good example of how the picture book process works. Each party has to respect the other’s process.
How we made: Helen Oxenbury and Michael Rosen on We're Going on a Bear Hunt
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Yesterday we sat out all day and were worried that we’d got sunburnt, and today we won’t be sitting out!
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I was delighted to be asked to take part in the BBC documentary about
#JuliaDonaldson
’s life and work. It’s a lovely programme, packed with special guests. Repeated on BBC2 Xmas Day and on the iPlayer. (Me and Helena! 😆)
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With no power, and no way to get to our accommodation, car or belongings, we took shelter in Barter Books. They were open and had lit the fires. Other people had come to seek refuge too. We were rescued by some kind folk who managed to get us back to where we should have been. ❤️
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Sheffield City centre has very few mature trees. Even fewer today, as Sheffield Council removed 4 healthy trees on Sunday morning at 6am as part of ‘improvements’ to the area.
#SaveSheffTrees
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It seems South Yorks Police arrested a lady today at a tree protest for blowing a small plastic trumpet. Glad the police are cracking down on these sorts of crimes.
#SaveSheffTrees
#toottoot
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Amazing to see so many people from all over the country tweeting about Sheffield’s trees! Our council continually tell us that only a small minority care about trees. If you care, do tweet and include
#TheWorldIsWatching
#SaveSheffTrees
@SheffLabour
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Bryan Lodge of Sheffield Council thinks that the Tree campaign is something that only a handful of people in Sheffield care about.
Can anyone else NOT from Sheffield please tweet to:
@SheffLabour
your town/city/country
#SaveSheffTrees
#TheWorldIsWatching
@TheSadSquirrel
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Painting pebbles or stones is an easy thing to do. I’m going to leave this one out in the woods for someone to find.
#isolatedbutnotalone
#stayhomechallenge
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Someone asked me for an autograph in WHSmith today. I was so glad they didn’t catch me rearranging my books to the front of the shelf! 😅
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🌟GIVEAWAY🌟
Win a signed copy of Who’s at the Zoo by Julia Donaldson & Lydia Monks.🐞
Follow and RT to win. Ends 9/7/21
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I thought you might like to see my roughs for the cover of What the Ladybird Heard at the Seaside by
#JuliaDonaldson
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I’ve just had to ask someone on Instagram to credit the illustrators of Julia Donaldson’s books, especially when creating projects for children based on the pictures!! It’s my pet hate. Sorry. I was very polite. 😖
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Big fluffy daft baby owls who squeak all night, and are not bothered if we come and look at them. 🥰
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Show your mum some ladybird love! This is the short Twitter version. You can see the full video over on Insta or FB. I will also try to get them up on YouTube. Let's see those ladybirds!
#drawwithlydia
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Every school should have access to a decent library in school. It’s ridiculous that there needs to be a campaign about this.
#lifechanginglibraries
Today, as
@UKLaureate
, I have written an open letter to the govt
@10DowningStreet
calling on them to put primary school libraries at the heart of our pandemic response, with £100m yearly investment. Read here; please share with
#lifechanginglibraries
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This is the cover for What the Ladybird Heard at the Seaside in different stages! 🧜🏻♀️🐞
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I very rarely get actual letters from children anymore, so when one arrives all the way from India, it’s a special thing! From a 3 yr old in Mumbai asking me to visit, so they can take me to the play area! 🥰
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Starting a new book is like hesitating before diving into a pool! It’ll be fine once I’m in!
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How many men does it take to cut down a tree in Sheffield? (Lots). I wonder if that money could have been spent fixing the pavement around the tree? Seems the easier option 🤔
#SaveSheffTrees
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“Cheerio but bee back soon.
I dunno somehow I miss you.
I love you, that’s why I
Say cheerio...
Not goodbye.”
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Just found this. When I was 15, I won an art competition in You Magazine. I came all the way to Bedford Square in London with my little sister, on our own, to collect my prize from Janice Long. 🏆
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If anyone wants to know where all the ladybirds have gone, they’re all in my house! 🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞
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One of the good things to come from this year, is making dog walking friends. We see them every day, and they’ve kept us going through this tricky year. Here’s the Xmas card I made for them 🐶
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My new book Adoette, inspired by the Sheffield tree campaign, is available to pre-order. Every little order helps! 💚🌳
@AndersenPress
@TALLChildrens
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Thank you
@MacmillanKidsUK
and
@panmacmillan
for my fabulous Golden Pan Award! 1,000,000 is a lot of ladybirds!! 🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞
It's not every day you get to award the Golden Pan Award (a very heavy trophy to mark sales of 1,000,000+) in reception.
Congratulations,
@LydiaMonks
! 💛
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I’d forgotten I’d taken this yesterday. I’m enjoying working on the new book, and was quite pleased with my bear. 🐻
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British Library asks nation's children to write miniature books in lockdown
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Its so heartening to hear millionaires moaning that if they have to pay more tax they will leave the country. Not threatening to leave if they see another homeless person on the street, or hear about another child who’s going hungry. Lovely.
@BBCr4today
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What’s that you say? She’s finished the artwork for What the Ladybird Heard at the Seaside?!
#phew
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I know
#WHSmith
are not having the best day, but it would be great if their recommendations for picture books included the illustrator’s name! I know it’s a silly little thing but it would be nice. What do you reckon
@PeteSelby1
? Xx 🙏
#picturesmeanbusiness
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Who lives in a house like this? Setting the scene in the new Julia Donaldson book.
#sneakpeak
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@jessphillips
It was an uncaring comment. We are all thinking it. There was no need. It shows a lack of humanity that is quite shocking.
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Lucky me with illustrator royalty, Axel Scheffler and David Roberts. So lovely to spend the night with such talent at the
@TwoHootsBooks
launch.
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As part of ‘improvements’ to Sheffield city centre, these 4 mature plane trees are being chopped down. I genuinely don’t understand how this is an improvement!
#SaveSheffTrees
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My local bookshop
@RhymeAndReas
are open 10.30-3.30 and they have copies of our new book signed by myself and Julia! Happy
#IndieBookshopWeek
!
@booksaremybag
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This photo popped up as a memory on FB. I’ve always liked it. Taken at
@7Stories
in 2012. Axel Scheffler, Julia Donaldson and myself.
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I've teamed up with
@ProfJamesLogan
to create, Dr Dog Explains Coronavirus. A little book for little people. Free to download here: 🐶
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